‘Spooks’: Series 1 Episodes 5 & 6 rewatch
We conclude our Spooks blog, where we’ve been rewatching the first series at a manageable pace of two episodes each week, with the final two episodes.
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We conclude our Spooks blog, where we’ve been rewatching the first series at a manageable pace of two episodes each week, with the final two episodes.
Some diehard fans will bemoan the lack of The Fog, Escape from New York or Dark Star; all three deserve honourable mention, though it’s the nature of these cult movies to divide opinion.
We open with a follow-on from the second season’s cliff-hanger, with Olivia held prisoner in the parallel universe that is waging war against ours.
The Sarah Jane Adventures moved Sarah Jane Smith through time from Plucky Girl Reporter to Cool Auntie, while losing nothing of what people liked about her in the first place.
Tara FitzGerald reprises her role as Dr Eve Lockhart from Waking The Dead this Autumn in The Body Farm, BBC One’s new six-part crime drama series.
If you’re clever, and you have the right scripts, it’s possible to make a virtue of typecasting by forging a career as a solidly dependable performer who can be relied upon to fill a certain you-shaped niche.
Award-winning writer Jack Thorne (Skins, This Is England 86) introduces new fantasy horror series The Fades, coming to BBC Three this autumn.
Having set an incredibly high bar with his previous works, We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, Angry Boys is the weakest of Chris Lilley’s mockumentaries to date.
‘Torchwood’s gone,’ Rex tells Vera in the fifth instalment of Miracle Day. ‘It’s just a name, these days.’ Yet for a number of reasons, this is perhaps the most Torchwoodian episode of the series yet.
The Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet turn up in Tombstone, Arizona, 1881, just in time for the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral.